Languages

[NormanS]

What a peculiar thread. It started 13 years ago, and the first eleven entries are all by the same "guest", talking to himself.

 

[LadyInBed]

What a peculiar thread. It started 13 years ago, and the first eleven entries are all by the same "guest", talking to himself.

Posted in the days when you didn't have to register to post, so anyone not registered appeared as guest?

 

[Daydream believer]

I am left handed and I have difficulty learning languages. I was once told that because left handed people have their brain on the other side of their head, languages are difficult, although such things as drawing are easier. Anyone else had such experience?

I think you are lucky - I know a few people who have their brains up their a..se

I do not think being L handed makes that much difference as I know a few who are good at drawing their welfare payments & putting graffiti on bog walls

As for foreigners not speaking English- I blame our ancestors for only teaching half the world how to speak the language & missing out the rest
Should have done the job properly, then those poor foreigners would not have found it so difficult to communicate-
It has taken some of them years to catch up- poor souls


Guess i did vote UKIP after all !!!:encouragement::encouragement:

 

[guernseyman]

Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. It didn't stop him drawing quite well. He could paint, too.

 

[Koeketiene]

Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. It didn't stop him drawing quite well. He could paint, too.

Yep, he did the ceiling in out kitchen

 

[Roberto]

Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. It didn't stop him drawing quite well. He could paint, too.

though one needs a mirror to read his writings



Actually, I think it was logical: at that time he probably wrote with ink and a goose feather, going from left to right would have the hand pass over fresh ink and spoil a lot of paper (or parchment, whatever)

As a left-handed I had the same "problem": during the early years at school, I had one teacher who obliged everyone to use a fountain pen. If I wrote with the hand in a normal position, say with the point of the pen slightly to the right of the hand, the hand would draw all the fresh ink into long spots along the paper; I had to begin writing with the forearm positioned above the hand, and the hand curved downwards, so the left hand would pull the pen towards the right, rather than push it, so preventing ink straying. I have seen a lot of "fellow" lefthandeds writing the same way; a lot less common today probably as different pens (or smartphones) are used

 

[Stork_III]

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